I can't let this go any longer. In my other life, I did quite a bit of diving up north. In the 1950s and '60s, I saw Lake Erie dying from the bottom up. In the past 39 years, I've been a witness to the ever-accelerating demise of our Keys underwater environment. It's all too familiar.

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